RADICALIZE (In this case): "To make rapid and sweeping changes in
laws and methods of Government"!

Yahoo! News (April 2, 2012)

"President Obama on Monday issued stern (threatening)
language to the Supreme Court regarding his health care,
expressing confidence "ObamaCare" will not be overturned.
He said, that overturning the (Government/Special Interests)
law would be "an unprecedented and extraordinary step" and
compared the court's rejection (all or parts) of the law
to be "Judicial Activism". For years what we have heard is the
biggest problem on the bench was "Judicial Activism", he said.
The president stressed that the judges are "unelected"
and noted the law was passed by a democratically elected
(stacked deck) Congress"!

(Reflecting back on "Judicial Activism" in the past, it was
mainly Democratic Presidents/Administrations that attemped
to radicalize previous Supreme Courts. Even the Republicans,
at times, have been guilty of trying to "Stack" the Supreme
Court "deck of cards".)

(It's "Judicial Activism" only when the powers that are
(Government/Special Interests) can't get the Supreme Court
to "go along to get along". When the court doesn't play by
their (both parties) rules of the game, they will take their
equipment "Supreme Court budget appropriations (Government) and
political campaign contributions (Special Interests)", and go home.)

(The politicians knew when "ObamaCare" was passed that it
wouldn't stand on it's own merit. They knew that it would be
challenged by the people and they too counted on "Judicial
Activism" to declare it, "Obamacare", to be Constitutional.
(Thus, further weakening the U.S. Constitution.)

(In my opinion, the Supreme Court "may" rule the "Individual
heath care mandate" as being unconstitutional and let the
remainder of the law stand. If the Supreme Court decides
in favor of the entire "ObamaCare" law, that will mean the
end of the U.S. Constitution, as we know it.)

(What the President and many in Congress fail (or don't want to
understand) is that the primary reason for the Supreme Court is to
uphold the U.S. Constitution; and not to radicalize its meaning
whenever it will benefit the Government/Special Interests!)

(The above have all swarn an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and
not to "whimsically" change it whenever they feel it will fulfill their
Agenda.)

EVIDENTLY, THE "CHECKS AND BALANCES" THAT THE FRAMERS PLACED IN THE
U.S. CONSTITUTION NO LONGER HAS ANY "REDEEMING VALUE" IN THEIR NEW
"PROGRESSIVE" ONE WORLD ORDER!

COME ON PEOPLE, WHEN ARE YOU EVER GOING TO CONCLUDE AND WAKE
UP TO THE FACT THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS NEVER BEEN CONTROLLED BY
THE PEOPLE! IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONTROLLED BY THE "SPECIAL
INTERESTS"! WE THE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BE PAWNS IN THE "SPECIAL
INTERESTS" GAME OF "INTERNATIONAL CHESS"!

"PRAESIS UT PROSIS NE UT IMPERES"
(Lead in order to serve, not in order to rule)

Fill in the below blanks with the following words or
use your own words.

Aggravation, charity, disgust, dust, free, gone, plantation, stone.

"Our" Constitution?
By L. Don Oliver

It once was a beautiful document,
That was carved in granite __;
It was giving great love and care;
Alas, all those cherished days have _;

Once it contain words of promise,
Words that resounded to the _;
Gathered within all its wisdom,
Was faith, hope, and __;

Now they are chipping it down,
Rendering it into a pile of _;
Viewing it as a pathetic relic,
Worthy of only our __;

No meaning left for what it once stood,
Told it's now filled with _;
That it is time to create another one,
For their New "Global" ___;

(They/their - Government/Special Interests)

Previous Poem.

Casting for Taxes!
By L. Don Oliver

Place one bead in the mouth,
Arch both hands around;
Twist and fling it out,
There is much lucre to be found;

With twine attached to one wrist,
Yank on it real hard;
Pull it in upon the dock,
Shake and it will discard;

Gather up all the bouncing bounty,
Place it in the Government's pail;
They can consume it far better than you,
And they will without any fail;

The President needs another Hawaiian Vacation,
The Congress more exotic foreign "Fact Finding" frills;
The Special Interests want another trillion dollar loan,
And the tax payers will be forced to "foot" their bills;

President Obama was recently overheard telling the Russians that
after HIS election (meaning: HIS re-election - that he would have
more flexibility to do whatever he wanted to do! (Meaning: He would
no longer have to con the American people into voting for him.)

(In my opinion, all of the "Republican Insiders" are in the same mold
as the "Democratic Insiders". There is no difference between the two.)

From a Reuters/Yahoo release: March 24, 2012.

China's second largest telecommunications equipment maker, said
it will "curtail" (after being caught) its business in Iran
following a report that it had sold Iran's largest telecom
firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring
telephone and Internet communications.

(This China Company may slow it's sales to Iran, but will not stop it.)

Rueters reported that Shenzhen based Chinese ZTE had signed a contract
with Telecommunication Co. of Iran in December 2010 that included the
surveillance system.

(This happened during the current Administration's watch - of course
the Liberals will blame the Conservatives and the Conservatives will
blame the Liberals. You know, that "DIVIDE AND CONQUER" thingy.)

The article also reported that despite a longtime U.S. sales ban
on technical products to Iran (and other considered rogue nations),
ZTE's "Packing List", included numerous "American" hardware and
software products.

(Which is a drop in the bucket of what American products that are
being sold to China by American companies that have relocated their
operations to China. These products are being sold to China who
redistributes them to the so called Rogue Nations at a profit.)

The U.S. makers of these products includes Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard co.,
Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Inc., Juniper Networks Inc. and Symatec Corp.
All profess that they were unaware that this was being conducted.

(All the above companies are large contributors to both parties election
campaigns. While the U.S. Government is telling the people that there is an
embargo of items being shipped to Iran and other rogue nations, American
products are being flooded into these rogue nations through the "Back Door"
by China.)

Brainwashing!

Mind control (also known as "brainwashing", coercive persuasion,
mind abuse, thought control, or thought reform) refers to a
process in which a group or individuals "systematically uses
unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform
to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of
the person being manipulated". The term has been applied to
any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as
subverting an (individual's) sense of control over their own
thinking, behavior, emotions or decision making (to orient them
to Progressive Socialist Conditioning).

In Propaganda: The principal aim is to change a person's attitudes
to destroy the person's individual thoughts and to program their minds
to believe everything that they read or are told about "progressive
Socialist Conditioning".

(i.e, "OBAMA CARE", it had to be passed so that the politicians could
see what it really contained. In that members of Congress did not
really care what it contained, in my opinion, OBAMA CARE is just another
"Mind Controlling Device" perpetrated on the American People! Is OBAMA
CARE really about health care?)

(In my opinion, it is mainly about Progressive Social Collectivism
verus Individualism! On hearings by the U.S. Supreme court, Justice
Anthony Kennedy warned about the insurance mandate in OBAMA Care;
"Changing the relation of the "Individual" to the Government,
justifying that is a "Heavy Burden".

Theories of brainwashing and of mind control were originally
developed to explain how totalitarian regimes appeared to succeed
in systematically persuading people through propaganda techniques
(i.e. The NAZI's). These theories were later expanded and modified
to explain a wider range of phenomena, especially conversions to new,
so called, religious movements (cults).

Also later, it was used to describe methodologies of coercive persuasion
used under the Maoist regime in China, which aimed to transform
individuals with a reactionary mindset into "right-thinking"
members of the new Chinese progressive social system. To that end
the Mao regime developed techniques that would break down the psychic
integrity of the individual with regard to information processing,
information retained in the mind and individual values. Chosen
techniques included dehumanizing of individuals by keeping them in
reality deprivation, psychological harassment, inculcation of guilt
and group social pressures. It was the Taoist custom of "cleansing and
washing the heart and mind".

THOSE THAT COMPLETELY CONTROL A PERSON'S MIND CONTROLS THAT PERSON
COMPLETELY!

In my opinion, these tactics are currently being employed daily against
the American people via our controlled government (Both Parties) and a
controlled media!

THE POWERS THAT ARE (GOVERNMENT/SPECIAL INTERESTS), HAVE CREATED AND
CONSIDER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO BE A NATION OF DUMB DOWNED/DRUGGED UP
IDIOTS! (The sad truth, they are!)

Recently I came across an animated cartoon
called "Make Mine Freedom" on You Tube. It was
produced by Harding College (A christian conservative
college) in 1948. It was produced soon after
the Soviet Union exploded their Atom Bomb and
the cold war began. It was about Capitalism
versus Communism. It brought back memories
of when I was eight years old and still
in elementary school. At the time we had
classes in Americanism versus Communism.
It was later changed to Capitalism versus
Communism. In the early 1950's, after the
Korean War, it was discontinued and the New
Age educational system began.

After watching this cartoon, I ask myself,
has the times really changed. I came to
the conclusion they hadn't, Just the ISMs have
changed to Progressive(ism) only (both parties),
with Freedom its victim.

Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct!

Question: What was the Sixteenth Amendment?

Politically Correct Resolution:

Sixteenth Amendment (The Income Tax Law) and the
Revenue act of 1913! (Wikipedia)

An income tax amendment to the Constitution was
first proposed by Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska.
He submitted two proposals, Senate Resolutions Nos.
25 and 39. The amendment proposal finally accepted
was Senate Joint Resolution No. 40, introduced by
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, the Senate
majority leader and Finance Committee Chairman.

Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (November 6, 1841 – April 16,
1915) was a prominent American politician and a leader
of the Republican Party in the Senate, where he served
from 1881 to 1911. (Better known today as Nelson and
David Rockefeller's maternal grand-father)

Because of his impact on national politics and central
position on the pivotal Senate Finance Committee, he was
referred to by the press and public alike as the "General
Manager of the Nation", dominating all tariff and monetary
policies in the first decade of the 20th century. In a career
that spanned three decades, Aldrich helped to create an
extensive system of tariffs that protected American factories
and farms from foreign competition, while driving the price of
consumer goods artificially high—which hurt many workers and
farmers. He was a party to the re-structuring of the American
financial system through the institution of the federal income
tax amendment, which he originally opposed, and the Federal
Reserve System. He stated that he believed these reforms would
lead to greater efficiency. Aldrich became wealthy with
investments in street railroads, sugar, rubber and banking.
His son Richard Steere Aldrich became a U.S. Representative,
(Of course this isn't new - many have enriched themselves
over the years by receiving inside government information)
and his daughter, Abby, married John D. Rockefeller Jr.,
the only son of John D. Rockefeller. Her son and his grandson
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, served as Vice President of the
United States under Gerald Ford. (A family affair?)

The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United
States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income
tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it
on Census results. This amendment exempted income taxes
from the constitutional requirements regarding direct taxes,
after income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were
ruled by the Supreme Court to be direct taxes. Something had
to be done to make up for this loss in revenue. The 16th
Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1913.

The United States Revenue Act of 1913 also known as the Tariff
Act, Underwood Tariff, Underwood Tariff Act, or Underwood-Simmons
Act, re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification
of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from
40% to 25%, well below the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909. It
was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on October 3, 1913.
(Which gradually lowered the taxes on imports and through
treaties over the years this nation has a minus in trade - making
it more advantageous to move manufacturing off shore)

The Revenue Act also provided for the reinstitution of a federal
income tax as a means to compensate for anticipated lost revenue
because of the reduction of tariff duties. The most recent effort
to tax incomes (Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894) had been declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court because the tax on dividends,
interest, and rents had been deemed to be a direct tax not
apportioned by population. That obstacle, however, was removed
by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment on February 3, 1913.
(In other words, taxes were being paid by landlords, stock and
bond holders, and on the interest the banks were receiving -
The Sixteenth Amendment/Revenue Act change all of this by requiring
individuals to pay these taxes instead).

The Revenue Act provided additional parts to the Sixteenth Amendment:

"subject only to such exemptions and deductions as are hereinafter
allowed, the net income of a taxable person shall include gains,
profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation
for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid,
or from professions, vocations, businesses, trade, commerce, or
sales, or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing
out of the ownership or use of or interest in real or personal
property, also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or
the transaction of any lawful business carried on for gain or
profit, or gains or profits and (income derived from any source
whatever)".

The incomes of couples exceeding $4,000, as well as those of single
persons earning $3,000 or more, were subject to a one percent federal
tax. Further, the measure provided a progressive tax structure,
meaning that high income earners were required to pay at higher rates.

It would require only a few years for the federal income tax to become
the chief source of income for the government, far outdistancing
tariff revenues.

Less than 1 % of the population paid federal income tax at the time.
Those making $20,000 per year were taxed at 1% rate progressing to
7% for those making over $500,000 per year.

The Sixteenth Amendment was a "Progressive" tax indeed; whereby, the
wealthy progressively over time paid less and the increasing middle
class paid more in taxes!

Since its (16th Amendment) inception, the wealthy have sent their
lobbyists in and had the income tax system changed where they pay
little or no income tax at all. Yes, the wealthy has more deducted
from their income during the tax year; However, with all the loop holes
they've had created, they receive most of this back when
they file their income tax statement in April of the following
year. There is nothing wrong with being wealthy as long as it was
gained "fairly" and not through corruption of the Tax System or using
the Tax System to destroy your competition! Don't fall for the
politicians using the Wealth/Race card to fulfill their agenda!

The Progressives and their benefactors have loaded both barrels of
their shotgun (Congress) and they're aiming it at the middle class!

"CAUSE LATET, VIS EST NOTISSIMA"
(The cause is hidden, but the results are well known)

(Wikipedia was used for much of this article)
(My use of Wikipedia is because most of it mirrors
what I learned in History classes at LSU in New Orleans.
Our history professor was Stephen Ambrose who many of us
in the military referred to as "that long haired hippy
professor")

The First Progressive Era!

In the early years of American history, most political
leaders were reluctant to involve the federal government
too heavily in the private sector, except in the area of
transportation. In general, they accepted the concept of
laissez-faire, a doctrine opposing government interference
in the economy except to maintain law and order. This
attitude started to change during the latter part of the
19th century, when small business, farm, and labor movements
began asking the government to intercede on their behalf.

By the turn of the century, a middle class had developed that
was leery of both the business elite and the somewhat radical
political movements of farmers and laborers in the Midwest and
West. Known mostly as (Progressives), these people favored government
regulation of business practices to, in their minds, ensure
competition and free enterprise. Congress enacted a law
regulating railroads in 1887 (the Interstate Commerce Act),
and one preventing large firms from controlling a single
industry in 1890 (the Sherman Antitrust Act). These laws
were not rigorously enforced, however, until the years
between 1900 and 1920, when Republican Progressive President Theodore
Roosevelt (1901–1909), Democratic Socialist President Woodrow Wilson
(1913–1921), and others sympathetic to the views of the
Progressives came to power. Many of today's U.S. regulatory
agencies were created during these years, including the
Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade
Commission. Muckrakers (journalists) during this period encouraged
readers to demand more regulation of business. Upton
Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) showed America the horrors
of the Chicago Union Stock Yards, a giant complex of meat
processing that developed in the 1870s. The federal government
responded to Sinclair's book with the new regulatory Food and
Drug Administration. Ida M. Tarbell wrote a series of articles
against the "Standard Oil" monopoly. The series helped pave the
way for the breakup of the monopolies. (Who later regrouped,
recharged and minipulated the system).

When Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected President with
a Democratic Congress in 1912 he implemented a series of
progressive? policies. In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment was
ratified, and the income tax was instituted in the United
States. Wilson resolved the longstanding debates over tariffs
and antitrust, with the Sixteenth Amendment and creating
the Federal Reserve, a complex business-government partnership
that to this day still dominates the financial (World). (Their
New? One World Order).

It was during this era that many of the Progressives (including
so called conservatives) adopted the Fabian philosophy of the
"Gradual Transformation" of society. The prevailing capitalists
of the time wanted to extend their National monopolies to an
International monopoly. The biggest stumbling block was this
nations protectionism (their term was isolationism). Thus, began
the road to Internationalism. Changing society has never been about
ideology; but, about profits and the American fish fell for it,
hook, line and sinker!

Swampyville's Ask the Politically Correct!
(A History of how we got to where we are today - each
individual should make their own judgement(s))

Question:

What were the Banana Wars?

Politically Correct Resolution:

(Most of this article from Wikipedia)

The Banana Wars were a series of occupations, police actions,
and interventions involving the United States in Central
America and the Caribbean. This period started with the
Spanish-American War in 1898 and the subsequent Treaty
of Paris, which gave the United States control of Cuba and
Puerto Rico (in addition, the Philippines and Guam). Between
the war with Spain and 1934 the United States conducted military
operations and occupations in Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico,
Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. The series of conflicts ended
with the withdrawal of troops from Haiti.

Reasons for these conflicts were varied but were largely economic
in nature. The term "Banana Wars" arises from the connections between
these interventions and the preservation of American commercial interests
in the region. Most prominently, the United Fruit Company had significant
financial stakes in production of bananas, tobacco, sugar cane, and various
other products throughout the Caribbean, Central America and Northern South
America. The United States was also advancing its political interests,
maintaining a sphere of influence and controlling the Panama Canal,
(critically important to global trade and naval power).

United States influences and occupations:

Cuba and Puerto Rico, with the United States interventing in Cuba and
the invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898.

Panama, United States interventions in the isthmus go back to the 1846
Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty and intensified after the so-called Watermelon War
of 1856. In 1903, Panama seceded from the Republic of Colombia, backed by
the US government, amidst the Thousand Days War. The Panama Canal (Theodore
Roosevelt was the driving force behind the construction of this canal) was
under construction by then, and the Panama Canal Zone, under United States
sovereignty, was then created (it was handed down to Panama as of 2000 by
order of Jimmy Carter "a Progressive Socialist" when he was President).
China immediately became the major influence of the Panama Canal.

Nicaragua, which, after intermittent landings and naval bombardments
in the previous decades, was occupied by the U.S. almost continuously from
1912 through 1933.

Cuba, occupied by the U.S. from 1898 to 1902 under a military governor
and again from 1906–1909, 1912 and 1917–1922; governed by the
terms of the Platt Amendment through 1934.

Haiti, occupied by the U.S. from 1915 through 1934, which led to the
creation of a new Haitian constitution in 1917 that instituted changes that
included an end to the prior ban on land ownership by non-Haitians.

Dominican Republic, action in 1903, 1904, and 1914; occupied by the U.S.
from 1916 through 1924.

Honduras, where the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company (Today,
Chiquita Brand International) dominated the country's key banana export sector
and associated land holdings and railways, saw insertion of American troops in
1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924 and Writer O. Henry coined the term "Banana
republic" in 1904 to describe Honduras.

Mexico, The United State's military involvements with Mexico in this
period are related to the same general commercial and political causes, but
stand as a special case. The Americans conducted the Border War with Mexico
from 1910 through 1918 for additional reasons: to control the flow of immigrants
and refugees from revolutionary Mexico, and to counter rebel raids
into U.S. territory. The 1914 U.S. occupation of Veracruz, however, was an
exercise of armed influence, not an issue of border integrity. In the years
prior to World War I, the United States was also alert to the regional balance
of power against Germany. The Germans were actively arming and advising the
Mexicans.

Other Latin American nations were influenced or dominated by American economic
policies and/or commercial interests to the point of coercion. Theodore Roosevelt
declared the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, asserting the
right of the United States to intervene to stabilize the economic affairs of
states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their
international debts. From 1909 to 1913, President William Howard Taft and his
Secretary of State Philander C. Knox asserted a more "peaceful and economic"
Dollar Diplomacy foreign policy, although that too was backed by force, as in
Nicaragua.

American military interventions!

These military interventions were most often carried out by the United States
Marine Corps. The Marines were called in so often that they developed a Small
Wars Manual, The Strategy and Tactics of Small Wars in 1921. On occasion, U.S.
Naval gunfire and U.S. Army troops were also used.

Perhaps the single most active military officer in the Banana Wars was U.S.
Marine Corps Major General, Smedley Butler, who saw action in Honduras in 1903,
served in Nicaragua enforcing American policy from 1909 to 1912, was awarded
the Medal of Honor for his role in Veracruz in 1914, and a second Medal of
Honor for bravery while "crushing the Caco resistance" in Haiti in 1915.
In 1935, Butler wrote in his famous book "War Is a Racket":

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during

that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big
Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer,
a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico
safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a
decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I
helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the
benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International
Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the
Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped
make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China
in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he
could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on
three continents". (Using Patriotism for Profits)

Whether or not this nation retains it's sovereignty or
becomes a satellite of the new "One" world order should
be left to the people to decide and not to the "Paid For"
politicians!